Nomads.com MCP: pick your next remote-work city with AI
Comparing Lisbon and Chiang Mai for a few months of remote work? Nomads.com's MCP server lets your AI app look up the best cities to live and work from by cost of living, internet, safety, weather and more. ContextGate connects it to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor with your Nomads.com sign-in, and the city research your team does through it stays on record.
- Ready to connect
- Free
Connect Nomads.com to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
- 1Click Connect Nomads.com free and sign in with your Nomads.com account.
- 2Nomads.com's server is for finding and comparing cities. Look through the tool list once it appears, every tool on, and switch off anything beyond the city lookups you want.
- 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
- 4Ask your AI app for three cities with good internet and a low cost of living, then open Activity to see the Nomads.com call.
Plan a move with Nomads.com in your AI app
- Shortlist cities to live and work remotely from, based on cost of living.
- Check internet and safety for a city before you book a stay.
- Compare weather across cities for the months you plan to travel.
- Ask follow-up questions in the same chat as your budget and itinerary.
Travel research, on the record
- Switch off any Nomads.com tool you don't want available to AI apps; it's hidden and refused if called.
- Activity records each city search, so you can see what was compared and when.
What you get with Nomads.com and ContextGate
- Your AI apps can use Nomads.comClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Nomads.com through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
- You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Nomads.com tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
- Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.
ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.
Nomads.com tools
Nomads.com's own MCP server shows its tools once you sign in. When you connect it, they are listed and synced in your workspace.